New data reveals 63% rise in AI bot traffic hitting website publishers.

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Independent Publishers Alliance urges members to block GPTBot and Google Bard crawler ASAP.

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Search engines Bing and Ask are working on "policies and procedures" to deal with 'right to be forgotten' requests. A representative from Google, meanwhile, which has already created a 'right to be forgotten' online form, revealed his company has received 75,000 take-down requests and is receiving 1,000 more every day. The figures were revealed by …

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The Independent has joined a growing list of news outlets now available on Microsoft’s UK Bing News App for Windows 8. The app will now feature content from seven publishers, including the Guardian, The Times, Sky News and Reuters. Users of the new app will have access to the whole of the featured newspapers with …

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